Missing in Switchboard/Applications

[teamcons]

What Happened?

Cannot change permissions it seems. I guess thats on Mail side ?

Steps to Reproduce

go in Applications, no mail

Expected Behavior

Access permissions of Mail

OS Version

8.x (Early Access)

Session Type

Secure Session (Wayland)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

No response

Hardware Info

No response

[ryonakano]

I think this is because Mail is provided through Debian Packaging at the moment, not Flatpak.

[teamcons]

Why ?

From an end user point of view that doesnt change anything to the issue

[ryonakano]

The reason why there are only Flatpak apps in Permissions pane is that, there is no concept of "permission" in the apps provided through Debian Packaging. These apps can do anything like accessing the whole filesystem, running in background, spawning arbitrary command, etc. without letting users know they do that, which means users can "permit" nothing. One of aims Flatpak is to resolve this problem, by running each apps in a separated (sandboxed) environment and allowing access to resources only when necessary. This is why only Flatpak apps can change permission in System Setitngs.

I'm not sure why Mail has not been provided in Flatpak yet, but maybe because there are still some problems like #784.

[danirabbit]

Yeah the big problem with mail, calendar, tasks is access to online accounts/eds/keyring in the sandbox

[teamcons]

wait i thought Calendar was provided as Flatpak